It can be from guru X or guru Y or guru Z or a mentor.Guru X -preaches tell seller you are the buyer, do your own comps, finagle your fee on topGuru Y- preaches go flip war zones, break into properties to check them out, pay title under the table to clear any issues and add your fee on topGuru Z- preaches learn every single solitary strategy out there to be the middle man and add your fee on topMentor- a wholesaler is a real estate marketing machine who knows their market and can provide value to all involved for a modest fee.

I do have a couple street machines that havent seen day light in a while . 

No, I'm not kidding:  It's called the political "machine", or more accurately, the "Burton Political Machine".

Once you have the machine working you can start getting into FB ads, email marketing, google retargeting and all that.

I either buy when the payout is great or when a tenant sends me the rent via Western Union as the machine is right in front of me

It's almost and automatic slot machine.  ;-)  The roof is next, probably in 5 years or so.  

As your marketing machine is gaining momentum you will be able to assign the contracts for deals that you don't intent to close on to other investors -> become a wholesaler. 

We are working on buying a CNC machine this week to cut out the handles and drill the holes for us, saving time and material cost.  

I work in data science at Freddie Mac where my team crunches a lot of mortgage data for machine learning, data mining, and data visualization. 

I currently do deal machine driving for dollars and have located SFR for under 100k that need work, if your interested look me up on here.